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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Dictionaries Teacher Stats

Joseph Raker
PLUS
Joseph Raker
Courses Plus Student 3,354 Points

Receiving error "Bummer! Couldn't find 'most_courses'". Can't figure out why!

I know others are having this problem, but I have not found a solution. Thank you and your help is appreciated.

teachers.py
# The dictionary will look something like:
# {'Andrew Chalkley': ['jQuery Basics', 'Node.js Basics'],
#  'Kenneth Love': ['Python Basics', 'Python Collections']}
#
# Each key will be a Teacher and the value will be a list of courses.
#
# Your code goes below here.
def num_teachers(teachers):
    return len(list(teachers.keys()))

def num_courses(teachers):
    return sum(len(v) for v in teachers.values())

def courses(teachers):
    output = []
    for courses in teachers.values():
        output +=courses
    return output

def most_courses(teachers):
    leader = 0
    teachermost = ""
    for key, value in teacher.items():
        if len(value) > leader:
            leader = len(value)
            teachermost = key
    return teachermost

1 Answer

Ryan S
Ryan S
27,276 Points

Hi Joseph,

The error message is not very informative, but a lot of the time when you get the "Couldn't find..." error and you clearly have the function defined, you can usually trace it back to something related to the function definition itself.

In this case, you passed in a "teachers" argument (plural), but you are trying to iterate through "teacher" (singular). This mismatch of the function argument is causing the error.

Hope this helps.